Neurotoxin should not be used here

 No responsible human being or policy would deliberately introduce Rotenone into the environment, as was discussed in your Dec. 26 article headlined "Game and Fish to host hearing on its native fish restoration program." Rotenone is a known neurotoxin, causing Parkinson-like symptoms in rats for example, and in fish as described in your article.

 Parkinson’s Disease is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s, both relentlessly progressive, cruelly protracted diseases having no known cause or cure. Toxins in the environment are high on the list of possibilities which scientists researching Parkinson’s Disease are pursuing, and Rotenone is one of them.

  For over 24 years, my husband suffered the rigidity, slowness, tremor, balance and other motor problems, as well as most of the non-motor and neuropsychiatric symptoms and medication side-effects of this devastating, life-consuming disease.

  Eventually he died of the complications of PD, a cruelly protracted decline and death to risk inflicting upon any person, even inadvertently, by deliberately introducing a known neurotoxin into the environment.

  Once that genie is out of the bottle, there is no way to guarantee control of its impact upon species, human or otherwise. All forms of life are deserving of respect and protection by the dominant species, human beings blessed with the freedom to choose to act responsibly ... or not!

DONNA-MAE MOORE
Foothills